in reply to Encouraging comments for downvotes

Anonymous comments might tear the community apart, for those with thin skin enough to take them personally -- and named ones will generate contempt. I am strongly against this proposal. I don't want to know. For those that care enough, they can post a public reply -- I'm one of the rare ones that doesn't like to see complaints in my inbox as well -- why? I have to go and manually delete them, and that is an annoyance. Tell me publically. If you see a really old thread that I won't read or have some really cool info, yeah, PM's are ok for that.

For the record, most downvotes I have cast today were for condescension towards others ideas, offering trite responses slightly beyond RTFM, and elitism, something I have very little tolerance for in the monastery. If I was wrong and I just misinterpreted attitude that wasn't there, or that is just someone's nature, others will upvote the node and restore the correct order of the universe. I always upvote good discussion, or things that make me think, even when I don't care for the discussion.

And yeah, I downvoted the root node for whininess. Rule #7 of Perl Club. Don't care about XP.

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Re: Re: Encouraging comments for downvotes
by disciple (Pilgrim) on Apr 08, 2004 at 03:31 UTC
    And yeah, I downvoted the root node for whininess. Rule #7 of Perl Club. Don't care about XP.

    Can you please show me in my post where I mentioned that I do care about XP? And where I whined about it? I am not trying to argue, but I thought I did a good job stating that I did not care about XP. Here are a couple quotes that emphasise my point, from the root node:

    I have no problems with downvoting and receiving XP for doing so. I also have no problem with someone downvoting my node especially if I am incorrect.
    Update 2 My primary concern is not that *I* know why *MY* post has been downvoted, but so *OTHER* readers know if a post is technically incorrect.
    Update 3 My main point was that I had seen some posts that were incorrect and downvoted but no-one posted a correction.
    This quote from this node: Have I still not made my request clear? I don't care about votes. As a reader of this site (any where from 1-4 hours per day) I would like to see people post more corrections. Some/Many (I don't want to post a made up statistic) people do this already. But I would that it be an official recommendation of PM that if you are going to downvote a node for TECHNICAL reasons, that you also post a comment explaining why the node is technically incorrect.

    Thanks,
    disciple
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